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Jun 15, 1215
Magma Carta
Was written by a group of 13th century barons to protect their rights and property against a tyrannical king. This gave a peasant some rights. -
Period: Jun 15, 1215 to
History never forgotten
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Jamestown
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. Settlers came to Jamestown for gold and to stay away from Britain. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston massacre was the killing of five colonist by British regulars on March 5, 1770. Chris Attucks was a African American that got killed. -
Boston tea party
On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the sons of liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chest of tea overboard. -
Lexington and Concord
Known as "first shots fire". Fought on April 19,1775, kicked of the American revolutionary war. Paul Revere and other warn the people that the British troops were coming. -
Louisiana purchase
Was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United states from France in 1803. -
Civil war
Was a war between the north and south leaded by great leader Ulysses Grant Union leader and Robert E. Lee confederates leader. -
Lee surrenders end of civil war
Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses because he had notice that the union was greater than them and knew they wouldn't win the war.
